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St. Joseph’s Health and Retirement Center and the Ojai community lost one of its treasures Thursday morning when cancer took the life of Brother Hugo Stippler. Stippler, 86, died Thursday at 6:31 a.m., according to Brother Michael Bassemier, St. Joseph’s administrator. Diagnosed in 2007 with prostate cancer that had metastasized into a kidney, Stippler continued his duties at the center on East Ojai Avenue and celebrated his golden anniversary in March with the Los Angeles-based Order of Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God